Timeline for Earliest real-world uses of calculus and linear algebra
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| Apr 23 at 12:11 | answer | added | Mauricio | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 23 at 12:00 | history | edited | Mauricio | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 22 at 15:00 | answer | added | jpmarinier | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 22 at 14:50 | comment | added | user12357 | Cross-posted: matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/27741/… | |
| Apr 22 at 11:32 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 22 at 2:11 | comment | added | Alexis | Regarding linear algebra: solving systems of linear equations dates back to at least the 2nd century CE, as in Chapter 8 of the Chinese text "The Nine Chapters of the Mathematical Art". Neither calculus nor linear algebra are good examples of mathematics initially developed only for its own sake; both were developed to solve concrete problems - cf. e.g. problem 8-1 of the above text. A better (and common) example is the number theory now used for the cryptography that underpins e-commerce. | |
| Apr 22 at 1:28 | comment | added | Conifold | If the point is that mathematics might take time to come to fruition then shouldn't you be interested in late applications rather than the earliest ones? Those that came long after the original discovery and were not a motivation when it was made (as in Newton's case). Linear error-correcting codes would be an example of that. | |
| Apr 21 at 19:22 | comment | added | M. Lonardi | I passed your question unchanged to chatGPT, which gave me an answer I agree with: computer graphics. | |
| Apr 21 at 16:38 | comment | added | Jon Custer | So Newton’s work was not ‘real-world’? | |
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| S Apr 21 at 16:13 | history | asked | Jaikrishnan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |